Challenge Your Beliefs

All of us cherish our beliefs. 

They are, to a degree, self-defining. 

When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based 

– or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven’t thought of, 

or demonstrates that we’ve swept key underlying assumptions under the rug 

– it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. 

It feels like a personal assault.

—Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World~

Challenge your beliefs!

Ask the embarrassing questions.

Search for knowledge.

It is not a personal assault.

It is a privilege and an obligation.